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Information Notice – 2/3/20

Summary

Effective February 18, 2020, the Section 31 fee rate applicable to specified securities transactions on the exchanges and in the over-the-counter markets will increase from its current rate of $20.70 per million dollars in transactions to a new rate of $22.10 per million dollars in transactions.

Finance-related questions should be directed to Amanda Rath, Manager, Finance, at (240) 386-6637.

Legal and interpretive questions should be directed to:

2018056269003 Paulson Investment Company, LLC CRD 5670 AWC sl (2020-1583367570738).pdf

FINANCIAL INDUSTRY REGULATORY AUTHORITY LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE, WAIVER AND CONSENT NO. 2018056269003 TO: Department of Enforcement Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) RE: Paulson Investment Company, LLC, Respondent Member Firm CRD No. 5670 Pursuant to FINRA Rule 9216 of FINRA’s Code of Procedure, Respondent, Paulson Investment Company, LLC (“Respondent” or “Paulson”) submits this Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (AWC) for the purpose of proposing a settlement of the alleged rule violations described below.

Technical Notice

Update - OTC Transparency Data API

February 03, 2020

On January 14, 2020, FINRA issued a Technical Notice regarding the 100 record limit for the FINRA API Platform, which provides access to FINRA’s OTC Transparency Data. As stated in that Notice, on January 15, 2020, FINRA temporarily increased the limit to 100,000 records to accommodate firms’ API implementations.

Beginning April 6, 2020, FINRA will enforce new API record and payload size limits of 5,000 records and 3MB respectively, whichever is reached first.